old drive for swap file

[carmello22]

I have an old 4 gig 7200 drive sitting around and I was wondering if anyone thought it would help to put my swap file on it. I have 2 80g/8mb already installed, one for d/l and one for xp.

 

[nikhsub1]

I have an old 4 gig 7200 drive sitting around and I was wondering if anyone thought it would help to put my swap file on it. I have 2 80g/8mb already installed, one for d/l and one for xp.

You would be much better off using the Non boot drive (one of the 80G 8mb) for the swap file. You could use the old drive but it will not be as fast as the 8mb cache drive.

 

[carmello22]

I constantly have things d/ling to the second 8mb drive, so that is why i was wondering if using an old drive would be better than the 8mb system drive.

 

[carmello22]

I just installed the old WD 3.2GB 7200 I had and put the swap file on it. So far things seem a little faster when lots of stuff is open. I'll keep testing and update.

 

[JDXNC]

I'm not sure if they ever made 7200rpm drives that small... I have seen many around 6gb, but none that small.

 

[carmello22]

I think you're right, as far as I can tell it's 5400 or lower. I found one site that said it was 4300. It's a WD AC33200l drive and it doesn't say on the label.

 

[carmello22]

Here's the update. I took it out and put the swap file on the 80gb maxtor that I d/l to. The reason is b/c of my generic ps couldn't keep up when everything was running and caused freezes. So far my d/ling doesn't seem to effect the swap file. I guess my next upgrade will be a new ps.

 

[Mito]

Hi.
Please access this thread. Thanks.
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=194406